Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Digitale Ökonomie

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-67 // 2004

    Using Methods of Treatment Evaluation to Estimate the Wage Effect of IT Usage

    In this study, I analyze the relationship between IT use and wages in West Germany in 1998/99. I use two estimation approaches: regression based matching and matching on the propensity score. The richness of the…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-49 // 2004

    Children in Need of Medical Innovation

    As the innovation process of pharmaceuticals is a long, risky and very costly business, economists typically emphasise lack of profit incentives and small market size as the most important obstacles to…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 04-33 // 2004

    Are Skill Requirements in the Workplace Rising? Stylized Facts and Evidence on Skill-Biased Technological Change

    The present analysis investigates skill requirements in the workplace, measured directly by the task-composition of occupations. It shows that the task composition of occupations has shifted toward analytical…